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the most ridiculous complaint you have heard.

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  • #32
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,025 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
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    Then they'll complain about the portion sizes, or try and ask for the dish 'without onions' or I geniunely heard one man ask in a well-known Dublin Michelin star if he could get a portion of chips as he was still starving :o

    been to a couple of expensive restaurants where we've stopped for chips on the way home

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  • #33
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    I've heard of some clowns who wanted large trucks banned from driving through their town because they cause too much noise. Yeah, never mind the fact that it'll cripple local commerce and cost people jobs, but no... you're sensitive fúcking ears are offended by the big clanking trucks. That only come through the place during the day during business hours anyway.

    Piss off, seriously.


  • #34
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    ednwireland wrote: »
    been to a couple of expensive restaurants where we've stopped for chips on the way home

    Yeah I don't get the "posh restaurant" thing.
    If I'm paying big I want a decent portion...simples.

    My favourite place to eat is a local steakhouse restaurant.
    I'd have it any day over a tiny portion on a fancy plate.


    Worst complaint I heard was a woman complaining there was cheese on her sandwich....she ordered a ham and cheese sandwich.


  • #35
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Yeah I don't get the "posh restaurant" thing.
    If I'm paying big I want a decent portion...simples.

    My favourite place to eat is a local steakhouse restaurant.
    I'd have it any day over a tiny portion on a fancy plate.


    Worst complaint I heard was a woman complaining there was cheese on her sandwich....she ordered a ham and cheese sandwich.

    Same, I want to be fed when I go out, not order something and get less food than you would if they were giving out free samples in a supermarket. Nice food in teeny portions is just teasing.


  • #36
    se conman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭se conman


    Stayed in a lovely hotel in South Africa an while in a small queue to check out I heard a couple discussing what they could complain about for a discount. The best they could come up with, and they attacked the receptionist about it, was that the pillows were too soft.


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  • #37
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    se conman wrote: »
    Stayed in a lovely hotel in South Africa an while in a small queue to check out I heard a couple discussing what they could complain about for a discount. The best they could come up with, and they attacked the receptionist about it, was that the pillows were too soft.

    I hate that sh1t, it's this "customer is always right" bollocks that just makes people give frontline staff a hard time so a manager will give them what they want to get them to stfu and go away. Nothing worse than knowing you're doing the right thing telling some idiot no when a manager just tells them yes for an easy life.


  • #38
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    All You Can Eat Buffet, "this is a disgrace, we just want to share one ticket between the two of us"
    It went on for hours, as stupid a person as I have ever met.


  • #39
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    i seen a woman complain in a dublin pub that the pint of guinness that she had ordered, wasnt a full one.

    the barman put it up on the counter and walked away and she stood there screaming at him and then demanded to see the manager as she wasnt going to pay for a "half a pint" as she described it.

    the barman then came back, topped it off and she shut up.


  • #40
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Some guy came into the pet shop & complained about a dead parrot he bought.

    Fcker doesn't know his parrots, it was a fcking Norwegian Blue, pr1k!


  • #41
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    This one dude was complaining and making snide remarks about me not wanting onions in my food. Very up themselves for somebody eating in restaurant run by a tyre company. If I'm gonna eat **** all I want to eat what I like, seeing as I'm paying for it. Couldn't get a right look at him behind all the M&S shopping bags though.


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  • #42
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    As a chef, I heard a good few "idiot" complains.

    "My steak tastes like beef!" That was actual complain.

    Waitress comes in with completely cleaned up plate. Not even a grain of rice left. Them she tells me: "He complained that there was no chicken in his chicken curry, he wants another one with chicken."...

    Ages ago I was working in carvery. Got one of those dudes. He was just taking a piss with his order. Asked for pretty much triple portion of beef, then 6 scoops of mash, 2 big spoons of each veg. 3 roast potatoes. The plate was so full I just had nowhere to put more food. I handed him the plate and said nothing as he clearly taking a piss. Next thing he goes to my manager and says " look at this plate! It looks like a pile of food for dog! Your boy has no skills!"
    Manager comes to me after and says me this: " if you get pricks like this again, just start putting food on second and third plate so we charge them properly".


  • #43
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    "My steak tastes like beef!" That was actual complain.

    I once had some snozzberries that tasted like snozzberries. I went blue in the face, so I did.


  • #44
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    You wouldn't believe it if I told you.


  • #45
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    A developer moaning to minimum wage me about the price of a pint of Guinness being too expensive while their BMW X5 outside in the hotel car park is probably shedding over 10k a year in depreciation

    And I think 3.15 isn't so bad


  • #46
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    This one dude was complaining and making snide remarks about me not wanting onions in my food. Very up themselves for somebody eating in restaurant run by a tyre company. If I'm gonna eat **** all I want to eat what I like, seeing as I'm paying for it. Couldn't get a right look at him behind all the M&S shopping bags though.

    So why did you go to a Michelin star restaurant?:confused:


  • #47
    mickrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypcSHTLlK8E


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was working in a cafe in Regent's Park in London a long time ago. This woman came in shouting at me while pointing to her top where a pigeon had shat on her. This was somehow my fault as she was sitting on some of the benches out the front. I couldn't help but start giggling in her face at her predicament. How was I in any way responsible for this? What exactly did she want me to do about this? Shoot all the birds in the park? A bird ****ting on you is a hazard you face when you leave the house everyday.


  • #49
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was working in a cafe in Regent's Park in London a long time ago. This woman came in shouting at me while pointing to her top where a pigeon had shat on her. This was somehow my fault as she was sitting on some of the benches out the front. I couldn't help but start giggling in her face at her predicament. How was I in any way responsible for this? What exactly did she want me to do about this? Shoot all the birds in the park? A bird ****ting on you is a hazard you face when you leave the house everyday.


    Perhaps you resemble a pigeon ?


  • #50
    lulu1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I occasionally will treat myself and the significant other to a meal in a Michelin starred restaurant.

    Every so often you'll see a people there who don't quite fit in. The ill-fitting jacket, the wide-eyed looking at the prices on the wine menu and the overall lack of table etiquette.

    Then they'll complain about the portion sizes, or try and ask for the dish 'without onions' or I geniunely heard one man ask in a well-known Dublin Michelin star if he could get a portion of chips as he was still starving :o

    But at the end off the day their money was as good as those who dine in these places.


  • #51
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    Perhaps you resemble a pigeon ?

    He looks more like a penguin with a rubber glove on his head to me.

    I've said too much

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  • #52
    actuallylike
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    My chef's old restaurant had a gap from the dining area to the kitchen where food was handed out and the customers could see the kitchen. A lady stormed up to it with her venison dish, slammed it down and shouted at our chef,

    "eh, I think you better go back to cooking school. Venison is usually fish".

    It's the 'usually' bit that keeps me up at night.


  • #53
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Saw a TripAdvisor review once containing the line "The bathroom was dull and boring".

    Damn, this hotel looked perfect, but I'm not going there if the bathroom is not interesting! :pac:


  • #54
    TheBegotten
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    Wind turbines. I've been within touching distance of a pair of them and you could still barely hear them above your footsteps. I went fifty yards down the hill and the traffic on the main road half a mile away was louder. That's the honest truth, you could hum to yourself and drown them out. And then you get people complaining about wind turbine syndrome, which is somehow magically cured by receiving large sums of money from the state.


  • #55
    bnagrrl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bnagrrl


    My sister was getting her nails done once and overheard a woman loudly complain that the nail bar wouldn't do her manicure as they were closing even though she'd booked an appointment.

    In another nail bar.

    On the other side of the city.

    She actually told the staff it was "ridiculous" that they wouldn't serve her and wanted to speak to the manager about it. CRINGE.


  • #56
    Absoluvely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Absoluvely


    Unkie Moe my sodie is too cold it makes my teef hurt


  • #57
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Worked in shipping in dublin port. One day, came in to find that the overnight boat hadn't sailed due to a force 10 gale, which wasn't a surprise, as it was still blowing.

    First call, irate customer, demand to know why his cars aren't in Liverpool yet. I explained the situation, to which his response was, "May I remind you that you're nearest competitor is only 100 yards down the road!"

    Where he can only have assumed the weather was beautiful....

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #58
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Complain about terrible mobile network coverage in your rural parish.........object to the installation of a mast on the hill above the village as there is a national school half a mile away


  • #59
    cruais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    Oh I forgot!

    Next day, same thing, no breakfast. It was a weekend so had to wait until the monday to sort things out.

    A man came in, and of course, what was his choice. ...?


    A feckin breakfast!

    Again, I did the whole apology thing, and offered alternatives.

    I noticed him getting quite flushed and next minute, whilst pointing his finger in my face, he roared,
    "If I as much as see you with a sausage in your hand, there will be hell to pay, HELL TO PAY, do you hear me?"

    I did all in my power to hold my laughter in. First world problems I tell you!

    Next customer,
    "Don't worry love, he's only a w@nker".


  • #60
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I worked in a Cornish Pastie bakery in the Uk and it was December, so there was a Christmas range of pasties. A woman came in and bought a mince pie one. She came back with it 10 minutes later with about a quarter of it left, to complain that it wasn't what she expected, despite the label on the display clearly showing the ingredients. Anyways, it was the end of the day and I really wasn't in the mood for it.

    I asked her what was wrong with it and she said there wasn't anything wrong with it, but it just wasn't what she expected:confused: and insisted on a refund. I said no but she kept going on and on, I just wanted to get my prep for the next day finished so I offered her a free pastie just to get rid of her and she asked for another mince pie one. At that point I told her to get out of the shop. Fcuing nut job.:mad:


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  • #61
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    Perhaps you resemble a pigeon ?

    Only one way to find out
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056653012


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